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单词 to take or make strides
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to take or make strides
b. transferred and figurative. Esp. in to take or make strides: to make progress.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > advance or make progress
furtherc1200
profit1340
to go alongc1400
to get forward1523
advance1577
proceedc1592
to take or make strides1600
to get on1655
to get along1768
to get ahead1807
to be well away1821
to get somewhere (also anywhere)1923
ramp1980
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make good progress
to go or run on wheelsc1547
forge1769
to be off and running1823
to be well on one's (also the) way1900
to take or make strides1926
1600 J. Chamberlain Let. 22 Dec. (1939) I. 113 Mistris Pranell is like to make a wide stride from that she was to be countesse of Hartford.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Simplicity flies away, and iniquity comes at long strides upon us.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) vi. 175 I said I had never heard of one taking such a stride at once, as from the top of the kirk of Scotland to the top of the church of Rome.
1791 W. Hutton Hist. Derby 285 Having now got into the political world,..he made rapid strides towards preferment.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xi. 170 Our narration is now about to make a large stride, and omit a space of nearly seventeen years.
1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. x. 384 The newly split stones..had scarce been yet worn down to smoothness when already the stride of a railway began to cover the ground.
1914 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 580/2 Stride by stride the village has closed in on the modest manor.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 21 Great strides have been taken in this field too during the last twenty years.
1934 Discovery Dec. 362/2 Photography for all purposes has made immense strides latterly.
1956 J. B. Wilson Lang. & Pursuit of Truth i. 14 The development of a good system of notation made it possible to take great strides in our mathematical knowledge.
1976 Field 18 Nov. 979/1 Great strides have been made in short term forecasting in the last five years.
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